Network Engineer (EMEA/APAC) – SD-WAN & Cloud Security

Rentokil Initial Group; Dudley Wood; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Programme

Free parking

Job summary

Rentokil Initial Group seeks a Network Engineer (EMEA & APAC) to maintain, optimize, and secure enterprise network infrastructure across regional data centers and branch offices. The role blends NetOps incident resolution with network engineering project delivery, including SD-WAN migrations and SASE security rollouts.

The ideal candidate will lead remote staging and provisioning, provide technical leadership to field engineers, and ensure compliance with security baselines.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in a regional NetOps or Network Engineering role.
• Strong working knowledge of IT governance, compliance, and ITIL frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary escalation point for Level 1 NOC.
• Diagnose network performance bottlenecks and outages to maintain high availability.
• Lead remote staging, configuration, and provisioning of branch networking hardware.
• Provide remote technical leadership to field engineers during rack-and-stack, cabling and patching.
• Implement network designs for SD-WAN and SASE deployments.
• Execute lifecycle patching, firmware updates, and vulnerability remediation.
• Monitor telemetry to identify and resolve performance degradation before impact.

Skills

Autonomous Execution

Systems Thinking

Cross-Cultural Collaboration

Structured Planning

Network Operations

Network Engineering

Tools

Cisco Switches

Aruba Switching

VeloCloud SD-WAN

BGP

OSPF

Aruba Wireless

Aerohive APs

Wi-Fi 6

DNS

DHCP

Proxy Servers

IPAM

Job description

Rentokil Initial Group seeks a Network Engineer (EMEA & APAC) to maintain, optimize, and secure enterprise network infrastructure across regional data centers and branch offices. The role blends NetOps incident resolution with network engineering project delivery, including SD-WAN migrations and SASE security rollouts.

The ideal candidate will lead remote staging and provisioning, provide technical leadership to field engineers, and ensure compliance with security baselines.